Back To Page 1 Fast Forward to Summer, 2003 Somewhere in the Philippine Sea: It’s month number 6 of the longest aircraft carrier deployment I’ve ever been on, and home is a long, long ways away in both time and distance. So far, I’ve been able to break away from my work duties and […]
by Chunx Flashback to January, 2001 At home in the High Desert of California, I power up my first home-built computer. Jeff, an old high school buddy of mine, lives and works at the same base I am stationed at and also happens to be quite a computer wiz (and gamer). I should hope so, […]
by Mark “Boxer” Doran Here’s a new temptation for those of you who want the most realism for your desktop flight simulation experience.RealSimulator have modified a standard Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar joystick to use force transducers instead of potentiometers. As a result this F-16 like control should now feel more F-16-like to complement the already high fidelity appearance. In […]
Back to Page 1 Benchmarks Synthetic SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1 SysMark 2004 MadOnion’s 3DMark2003 PC Mark 2004 MainConcept 1.3 WebMark 2004 Games Falcon 4.0 Ghost Recon Comanche 4 Flight Simulator 2002 F1 Challenge IL2: Forgotten Battles LOMAC Athlon 64 3400+ 3.40E GHz Prescott 3.40 GHz Northwood SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1 SysMark 2004 3DMark2003 (1024 […]
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Introduction Well, just as I mentioned a few days ago, the CPU battles between AMD and Intelare not slowing down one bit. Intel is announcing a new CPU today which will likely be the final Northwood CPU we are to see. It’s a sad day really because Northwood was a very popular CPU; I […]
Back to Page 1 Synthetic SysMark 2004 MadOnion’s 3DMark2003 WebMark PC Mark 2004 MainConcept 1.3 SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1 Games Falcon 4.0 Ghost Recon Flight Simulator 2002 F1 Challenge IL2: Forgotten Battles Comanche 4 AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 Intel 3.40 GHz Extreme Edition SysMark 2004 MadOnion’s 3DMark2003 WebMark PC Mark 2004 MainConcept 1.3 SiSoft […]
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Introduction It seems like yesterday that AMD and I were talking about product launches in 2004. I can remember that after looking over both Intel and AMD’s roadmaps, I was not expecting too much action in 2004. At least not early in the year, perhaps a bit more action in the 2nd half […]
Back to Page 1 Benchmarks Synthetic MadOnion’s 3DMark03 (CPU Only) – Patch: v340 Sysmark 2004 – Patch: None PCMark2004 – Patch: v1.01 Main Concept 1.3 – Patch: Demo only WebMark 2004 – Patch: None Games Falcon 4.0 – Patch: 1.08a and SP3 using PD Benchmark Ghost Recon – Patch: English Patch IL2 Sturmovik: Forgotten […]
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Introduction: Intel Pentium 4 3.20GHz Prescott with 1MB L2 cache w/ 800MHz FSB Intel is on the move today by launching their newest series of CPUs. Prescott has been in the news for sometime now as Intel was hoping the move toward 1MB L2 could continue to dethrone the Athlon series from AMD. […]
Back to Page 7 Overall Opinions and Conclusions Well, to say I “really liked” the TrackIR2 would be an understatement. Some early bugs aside, the device installed without a problem, tracked well, and after learning how to use the device, proved an advantage in virtual combat. The ability to follow that bandit without stumbling […]
Back to Page 6 Flight Simulator 2004 FS2004 and it’s earlier sibling FS2002 both support the TrackIR. I didn’t test the TrackIR2 with FS2002, but it worked very well with FS2004 (although I thought head panning was slightly too fast for comfort). This is adjustable within the control panel of the TrackIR device which […]
Back to Page 5 Lock On: Modern Air Combat I want to thank Matt Wagner and Clint Hayashi for getting me a Gold Copy of LOMAC for the TrackIR2 Review. I was pleasantly surprised to see a manila envelope with a copy of the game on my porch two days after asking Matt. I […]
